Two American warships sailed through the Taiwan Strait, the US navy said on Thursday, as Washington also kicked off multinational naval drills near Guam in operations bound to provoke a rebuke from Beijing.

Toiling for long hours for meagre salaries and living in crowded dormitories, migrant construction workers have helped build modern-day Singapore but remain all but invisible to many in the affluent city-state.

President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered tonnes of garbage dumped in the Philippines years ago to be shipped back to Canada, his spokesman said on Wednesday, but Ottawa announced arrangements to take back the offending cargo which led to a diplomatic row.

Tens of thousands of Indonesian military and police were deployed on the streets of Jakarta on Thursday, as a deadline approached for a presidential challenger to file an appeal over claims of widespread cheating in last month’s ele

Two years after the Philippine city of Marawi was overrun by jihadists it remains in ruins, with experts warning that stalled reconstruction efforts are bolstering the appeal of extremist groups in the volatile region.

As His Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led in 327 seats in the Lok Sabha – the lower house of India’s bicameral parliament – and was set to form the government for the second time along with its NDA allies, Prime Minister Narendra Mod